Visit homepage to watch live video - click here ----- br Watch, race track in daytona beach, daytona 500 updates, daytona 500 update live, daytona 500 update, daytona 500 tv schedule br DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Jeff Gordon will be in the booth and Tony Stewart in a bed when the Nascar season begins. br br Neither luminary will be in a car when Daytona International Speedway opens Friday for preparations for the Daytona 500, which begins the Nascar season on Feb. 21. Gordon, a four-time champion and arguably the sport’s biggest star, retired after last season and will be a Fox analyst. br br Gordon has been highly visible during his newly acquired free time. He and Stewart were on an all-terrain vehicle trip a week ago when Stewart, a three-time champion, crashed, fracturing a vertebra. He lay in the sand alone for 90 minutes waiting for his group to find him and get him to a hospital.